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Teaching with Newspapers
Use your newspaper — the most up-to-date text book you can find! Here are some teaching ideas from this month's Teacher Scoop.
Healthy Happy New Year
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Use the Kid Scoop page as a theme for your own lesson plan. Check out topics for the month at:
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With this summer's Collaborative Summer Reading Program, your students can play and learn at the same time. Encourage them to join in at participating local libraries, read Kid Scoop and develop their creative talents along the way.
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What Not to Eat
Have students identify foods in the newspaper that are NOT healthy. As a class, discuss the problems with these foods, ask students to suggest substitutes and brainstorm ideas for eating a balanced diet. What background knowledge do students have about food choices? Where might they find more information about nutrition?
Standards link: Health: Students understand essential concepts about nutrition and diet.
Class Cookbook
Look through the newspaper to find nutritious recipes and images to illustrate them. Then, compile these into a book. You can organize recipes alphabetically, or by meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner, drinks and snacks.
Standards Link: Health: Know healthy eating practices (e.g., eating a nutritious breakfast, eating a variety of foods, eating nutritious meals and snacks at refular intervals to satisfy individual energy and growth needs.)
The Good Food Rap
Divide your students into groups and have each identify three facts about food. Let groups use the newspaper and its website to access information and illustrations. Now have each group insert its facts into the stanza below and perform a rap for the class. Can the poets among them make their lines rhyme?
The good food rap
The good food rap
Get on track
With the good food rap
Your nutrition won’t lack
If you get on track
Eat good food, nothing that's tack,
Fruits and veggies from the rack,
Grains and nuts slip in your pack,
Your energy will bounce right back
If you get on track, if you get on track.
Did you know ______________?
Did you know ______________?
Did you know ______________?
These facts are true
For me and you.
We want a healthy diet,
And we won’t keep quiet!
Standards Link: Health: Know that different foods have different nutritional values.
Go Team
Have your students identify the names of teams in the newspaper. Now let them imagine there are teams for each subject they study in school. Have them make a list of names for the science team, library team, math team and so on.
Standards Link: Life Skills: Work cooperatively within a group to complete tasks.
Take Part
Have students use the newspaper to find service organizations and volunteer opportunities in your area. Encourage participation by having students identify the value, both personally and to the community, of local involvement.
Standards Link: Civics: Understand the importance of volunteering as a characteristic of American society.
Your Officials
Over time, have students locate in the newspaper the names of government officials. Sort them into categories of local, regional, state and national. Have students create a flowchart showing the hierarchy that begins with local government officials and goes all the way up to the President.
Standards Links: Civics: Understand hoe the U.S. Constitution grants and distributes power and responsibilies to national and state government.
Food Jigsaw
Put students into pairs. Have each student find a food picture in the newspaper that he or she carefully cuts into six pieces. Students then exchange pieces with their partner and compete to see who can reassemble a picture first.
Standards Links: Health: Understand essential concepts about nutrition and diet.
Good Turn
The Boy Scout slogan is "Do a good turn daily." This means doing at least one thing every day to help a family member, neighbor or other person in the community. Have your students find examples of a “good turn” in your local newspaper. Write a letter to the editor thanking the person who did the good deed for making your community a better place.
Standards Link: Writing Applications: Write in a variety for forms and genres (e.g., friendly letters).
